It leaves me with too many questions and not enough answers. What possesses a teenager to get so angry and violent as to bring a gun to school and shoot a fellow classmate, presumably because they are different? Where did he get the gun? Did his parents know he was filled with this much anger? How must the parents and family of the boy who was killed be feeling about now? What's to say this can't happen at the schools at which my sons attend? Did the boy who was killed know Jesus as his Savior? Does the boys who did the shooting know Jesus? Will he come to know Him as a result of this? What are churches doing to get the life changing message of how Jesus can transform a life out to a world filled with violence, pain, grief, loss, hopelessness? Will there be a team of people at a church in Knoxville equipped to share the message of grace and hope with those impacted by this tragedy, and then, will they make the efforts necessary to get out and actually do it?

We could blame the media, exposure to violence, and many other factors for what happened. Ultimately, it is a heart issue, and a mind issue. A heart that is filled with the wrong things, and a mind that was conformed to the world and not tranformed by being renewed. Ultimately, only Jesus can change this, and we get the privilege to share with the world how they can know the Jesus that can do this! Awesome!!